From a story on physorg.com, kindly sent along by my friend and colleague Katy Muldoon, who writes about all manner of animal hijinks for The Oregonian, but apparently draws the line about here...(and let the record show that Muldoon's line about this story was, "They don't call it Lucky Lager for nothing...")

physorg.com

It was a case of a besotted male and beer. Love-sick and
lonely, the male girded his loins and took immediate action to relieve
his unhappiness – but with a surprising outcome, as a U of Toronto Mississauga
professor discovered.

The male in question, an Australian jewel beetle (Julodimorpha bakewelli), became so enamored of a brown "stubby" beer
bottle that he tried to mate with it – so vigorously that he died
trying to copulate in the hot sun rather than leave willingly, says
Professor Darryl Gwynne of biology, an international expert in
behavioural ecology, specifically the evolution of reproductive
behaviour.

Of course, any mention of science gives me the perfect excuse to post the cover of my favorite Laurie Anderson album...

Today, Gwynne and his Australian colleague David Rentz were awarded an Ig Nobel Prize at Harvard University for their 1983 paper "Beetles on the Bottle: Male Buprestids Mistake Stubbies for Females."The Ig Nobel Prizes, a parody of the Nobel Prizes,
are awarded annually by the scientific humour magazine Annals of
Improbable Research to "first make people laugh and then make them
think." The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honour the
imaginative and spur people's interest in science, medicine and
technology.